Patty hasn't been doing her fair share of blogging...

...and it's a weeknight, and it's around midnight (earworm alert!), so I'm still not going to do my fair share because I should have been in bed more than an hour ago. But I'll offer this: I've spent the past few days, for reasons I don't feel like explaining, pondering collective nouns—nouns that refer to a group of people or things. You know, like "gaggle of geese" or the less well-known "crash of rhinoceroses" and "murder of crows." Anyway, on my way home from work Thursday, I came up with at least four good collective nouns:

• Curtsy of debutantes
• Ditz of sorority girls (or blonds, or whatever group you care to stereotype)
• Entitlement of Baby Boomers
• Hallucination of hippies

So I was wondering: How do I get in on the official creation of collective nouns? Because I think I've got potential, man...